Claims suggest House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) hard-fought seat could yet be pulled from under him by Democrats.
The likelihood of any such motion succeeding is another matter, but, in principle, under the current wording, theAs Dr. David Andersen, assistant professor of United States Politics at Durham University, toldthe new rules put McCarthy in an"awful position," leaving it a possibility that Democrats would only need five Republicans to pass a motion to vacate.
"If just five Republicans in the House join together with a united Democratic caucus, the Speaker will be ousted and nothing can be done until a new Speaker is elected. "McCarthy can't change the rules now that they have been passed so this is something that he will have to live with for the next two years.
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